We could all use some extra stress #resilience rn. But how does it work in the brain? On the surface, resilience looks like ignoring stress. Does the brain fail to respond? Or are active adaptations required? Or are resilience and susceptibility divergent paths? doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2025.116867

Five shows you’ve seen w female lead singers. The 5.6.7.8’s L.A. Witch Lush Pizzicato 5 Siouxsie & the Banshees

minnesota people are incredible

PSA on Competitive, Not Discussed NIH proposal outcomes drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/01/23/p...

*Multi-region computations in the brain* When two regions are better than one... doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... #neuroskyence

Main postdoc study out! We can redefine prefrontal cortex regions with single-unit activity! Grateful to @carlenlab.bsky.social and @weltgeischt.bsky.social who made this crazy project real. Thanks to all co-authors, collaborators, and reviewers. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... here is the study, the borders you can see in this study were performed by matching cytoarchitectonic to connectional data, and we found very interesting evidence pointing towards a functional differentiation between the areas we identified

Fully agree with an increasing focus on single cell activity and connectivity modules to study the brain! But the proposal to throw out cytoarchitectonic labels is unnecessarily extreme. Great example why here👇👇

I guess granular prefrontal cortex is just a spandrel of evolution. Excuse me while I let my whiskers grow out. bsky.app/profile/pier...

Now for the money... Overall, the budget is essentially flat. The biggest winner is NINDS with a 5.9% increase. The biggest losers are NIEHS and NIDDK. 4/5

Back to details of the NIH budget bill: #NIH money is slightly up. It’s not a huge cut as the White House (aka Project 2025/Russell Vought) proposed in the spring. Good! BUT ‼️, technicalities of NIH operation are vital now.

Hey y’all! My institute started a new set of training programs for people interested in careers in the neurotech space. Spread the word!

Just spoke to The Hill about how the dismantling of the NIH is impacting science in America. We still face a cliff of unfathomable heights, w easily 1000+ labs poised to close in the next year due to funding ending. A generation of young scientists lost because there is nowhere for them to train.

#NIDA and #NIAAA are the same as last year.

House Appropriations minibus bill funding NIH is out now. - $400M increase - Multiyear funding of new awards capped at 2025 levels. - No line item for BRAIN Initiative text here: docs.house.gov/billsthiswee... Screenshots from Dem summary and Sec 240 (multiyear funding text).

Using stem cell technology, we’re determining how neuronal hyperactivity causes vital communication bridges (synapses) to deteriorate. Our goal is to identify the window to protect the brain before permanent damage occurs. Learn more: cjdfoundation.org/daniel-ojeda... #CJD #PrionDisease

I edited a special issue of Addiction Neuroscience on dopamine circuitry & heterogeneity in addiction - now complete!🧠🧪 Check out the full issue & my editorial (all open access) here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Writing is thinking "On the value of human-generated scientific writing in the age of large-language models." www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Just learned of the passing of Prof. Larry Rothblat (GWU), sage mentor, and a generous and kind human www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/w...

Full survey results show American public have high levels of confidence in scientists while revealing some partisan differences (including on how to fund science), but statements asserting lost trust should be read instead as intentional efforts to degrade trust. www.pewresearch.org/science/2026...

New forecasted R25 opportunities in research training. Research Experiences: simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/...

A reminder as Congress finalizes NIH appropriations: the bill must limit multiyear funding (MYF), Vought's way of cutting the NIH budget without cutting the budget. MYF will devastate the research workforce. @safa-science.bsky.social wrote this in July. Still relevant: substack.com/@scienceandf...

My department, Duke Neurobiology, is searching for a new chair. Ad below. Come work with me, @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social @ennatsew.bsky.social @jorggrandl.bsky.social @jnklab.bsky.social @sbilbo.bsky.social @neurocircuits.bsky.social and many other amazing folks! @dukemedschool.bsky.social

Timeline cleanse thanks to Hermosa Beach ☀️. Skip Malibu, come to the South Bay. On a clear day, you can see Palos Verdes, Catalina, and Santa Monica. Fewer crowds. A beautiful sunny day with @yehyeh45rpm.bsky.social

Let’s talk about how great the sciENVcv site is…

Identifying the neural pathways that link drug cues to relapse is critical to improving substance use disorder treatments. New work from my lab found that #CBD reduces cue-driven heroin seeking in rats, related to changes in gene expression 🧠👇 www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

Delighted to share our first preprint of the year! A project that we're all really proud of in the lab led by @ossamaghenissa.bsky.social with @mathiasgua.bsky.social in which we set out to test the role of basolateral amygdala astrocytes in anxiety behaviour. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A claustro-cingulate mechanism for adaptive control

Hot off the @nature.com press!! Our A-SOiD behavior library developed specifically for pain to quantify a new chemogenetic gene therapy that targets opioid circuit in ACC without addictive properties @flybottleescape.bsky.social @cmu-neuroscience.bsky.social @cmu.edu www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The district court injunction that prevented NIH from capping indirects at 15% was upheld today on appeal! www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

We are so thrilled to welcome new colleagues Erie Boorman, @maureenritchey.bsky.social, and @ajaysatpute.bsky.social to UCLA. What an exciting day for UCLA Psychology! #neuroeconomics

New tenured faculty position open here at University of California, Riverside School of medicine! Please share and feel free to reach out with questions! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02207 #academicsky #PhDchat

A chemogenetic application to curb cocaine reinforcement www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I’m excited to share our new Current Biology paper! We use retrograde optogenetics in non-human primate and revealed a visuomotor convergence mechanism in the FEF-SC pathway. www.cell.com/current-biol...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, EMORY! 189 years old, and we don't look a day over 182 💙 💛

Welcome ECR Fellows to the Oxford Open Neuroscience editorial team! I‘m happy to be working with @kurtfraser.bsky.social on some exciting topics in Behavioral Neuroscience! #neuroscience academic.oup.com/oons/pages/e...

(1/6) We have a new paper out in #eNeuro! How does the brain’s reward processing change across social contexts? We mapped brain activity (cFos) & found that social context reshapes how reward circuits are coordinated🐭🏆 Read more: www.eneuro.org/content/12/1...

So many “new” ideas are old repackaged ones using updated terms based on current technologies. Either folks need to read papers from > 5yrs ago. Or they need to cite them so readers & the public see the slow plodding incremental nature of discovery science. #AcademicSky

LOVED this paper from @constantinoplelab.bsky.social showing how estrogen modulates reinforcement learning in @natureportfolio.nature.com Was also stoked to write the commentary for this paper with our superstar postdoc Masa Taira. Check it out 👇 🧠🧪

And the final #sfn2025 attendance count is: 21,093

Ed Kravitz was an extraordinary scientist, educator and activist. I had the privilege of getting to know Ed through his work with SPINES, a professional development course at the MBL. His legacy will carry on, not only through his science, but also in the many students he taught and mentored. 🧪

WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)

come thru for my poster at HH2 from now-ish to 5 today thx @sfn.org #sfn #sfn2025

We are thrilled to announce that the preliminary program for the 2026 GRC on the Frontal Cortex is now live! www.grc.org/frontal-cort... Registration is now open for both the GRC and our GRS, chaired by @albitc.bsky.social and @jorge-miranda.bsky.social!

*tapping the sign*

Claudia and Zeena posters are today! DD16 in the morning and HH2 in the afternoon #SfN2025 #SfN

Who wore it better? Our new paper shows that rat OFC supports Bayesian inference of hidden states! With neural correlates of inferred state transitions at the level of single neurons and population-level latent factors. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My paper is out! Computational modeling of error patterns during reward-based learning show evidence that habit learning (value free!) supplements working memory in 7 human data sets. rdcu.be/eQjLN

Will you be at #SfN25? Stop by the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre’s posters and talks! @sfn.org

We ate well last night (in a tent, indoors, with s'mores for dessert), and are energized to talk science today at #SfN2025. Come visit our posters: AA14 this morning Y11, GG13, HH11 this afternoon